From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 3 14:15:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailg.telia.com (mailg.telia.com [194.22.194.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7E437B405 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailg.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g23MFKN02969 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 23:15:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h217n1fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.162.217]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA27233 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 23:15:20 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 57324 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Mar 2002 22:15:19 -0000 Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 23:15:19 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase ScrollLock buffer size on FreeBSD 4.5R2? Message-ID: <20020303221519.GA57277@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020302152508.M854-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> <443czhdasq.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> <20020303202828.GA1352@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020303202828.GA1352@raggedclown.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:28:28PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:02:40AM -0600, Bob Giesen wrote: > > On Sunday 03 March 2002 07:45 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Peter Leftwich writes: > > > > Hello, could you tell me if there is a man page about the "Scroll > > > > Lock" key and the buffer size [limit and how to increase this]? > > > > Thanks kindly, > > > > > > man vidcontrol > > > > This man page doesn't seem to hold the answer, but refers to > > syscons (4) -- which seems to indicate that the kernel can be > > configured with the SC_HISTORY_SIZE=n option, where n is the desired > > number of buffer lines (which defaults to 100). > > > man vidcontol > . > . > > -h size > Set the size of the history (scrollback) buffer to size lines. Except that you can't increase the size of the buffer beyond what is specified by the SC_HISTORY_SIZE option. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message